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,J.HENTZ. BALE TIE.

No. 439,657. Patented Nov. 4, 1890.

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BALE TIE. No. 439,657. Patented Nov. 4, 1890.

/ mummnm g j zm MM UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB HENTZ, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE lVASI-I- BURN & MOEN MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

BALE-TIE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 439,657, dated November 4, 1890.

Application filed February 12 1890- serial No. 340,172. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be itknown that I, JACOB HENTZ, a citizen of the United States, residing at Worcester, in the county of \Vorcesterand the State of Massachusetts,have invented certain newand usefullmprovements in Bale-Ties; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, which, in connection with the drawings, making a part of this specification, will enable others. skilled in the art to which my invention belongs to make and use the same.

My invention relates to bale-ties, more particularly to wire bale-ties, and the object of my invention is to provide a clamping-plate permanently attached to one end of the baletie and adapted to clamp and hold the other free end of the tie, after the same has been applied to the bale, without wrapping or twisting the same; and my invention consists in certain novel features of construction and operation of the clamping-plate, and in combining the same with the ends of the baletie, as will be hereinafter fully described.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l is a side we Jf my improved bale-tie, showing the eno sconnected. Fig 2 shows my improved bale-tie with the ends connected, and the free end clamped in the fastening-plate by the pressure of the bale after the same has been released from the press. Fig. 3 is a central longitudinal section of the clamping-plate shown in Fig. 1 detached. Fig. 4 is a central longitudinal section of a modified form of the clamping-plate secured to the looped end of the tie. Fig. 5 is an edge view of another modified form of the clamping-plate secured to the looped end of the tie. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the clamping-plate shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 7 is a plan view of the clampingplate shown in Fig. 4, and Fig. 8 is a plan view of the clamping-plate shown in Fig. 5.

In the accompanying drawings, 1 is the baletie wire, provided with a loop 2 at one end. The other end 4 is left free and straight.

3 is the clamping-plate, preferably made of steel, having the tongue 3 cut or stamped out of the central part thereof in the direction of the length of the plate 3. The tongue 3 is preferably free at one end, as shown in Fig. 3, and is provided with a hole or opening 3" through its free end. (See Fig. 3.) Alongitudinal slot or opening 3 extends in the plate 3 where the tongue 3 is cut or stamped out. The clamping-plate 3 is combined with the loop 2 of the wire tie by passing the end of the wire through the slot 3 and the hole 3", in the tongue 3' and then intertwisting it with the body of the wire, as shown in Fig. 1.

After the bale-tie has been placed around the bale in the press, the free end 4 is inserted under the tongue 3that is, between the tongue 3' and the body of the plate 3, as shown in Fig. 2. The expansion of the bale 6 when it is released from the press will cause the wire tie to spread and draw out the loop 2 and draw the free end of the tongue 3 into the slot 3 in the plate 3, thus clamping and binding the free end 4 of the tie between the tongue 3 and the body of the plate 3, against said plate, as shown in Fig. 2, and thus securely holding the free end of the tie without wrapping or twisting the same around the body of the tie.

Figs. L and 7 show a modified form of the clamping-plate in which the tongue 3 is not made free at one end, but is pressed up, as shown, forming a strap 3, having a hole 3" therein, and the body of the plate pressed down, as shown, leaving an oval-shaped opening 3". The free end of the tie is inserted in this opening at the opposite end from the loop 2, and the expansion of the bale when it is released from the press draws out the clamp- 8 5 ing-plate, and draws together the upper part or strap and the lower part of the plate, thus clamping and holding the free end of the tie between the same.

Figs. 5 and 8 show another modified form 0 of the clamping-plate, in which the loop or strap part 3 is made double, extending upon the upper side and also upon the lower side of the body of the plate 3. The looped end 2 of the wire tie l is connected with one end of the clamping-plate 3 by passing it between the strap 3 and the body of the plate, as shown in Fig. 3, and the other free end 4 of the tie is connected with the other end of the plate 3 by passing it between the strap at that end and the body of the plate.

The details of construction of the clampingplate may be varied somewhat from What is shown and described without departing from the principle of my inventionnvhich consists, essentially, in combining with a wire tie a clamping-plate made of metal and having a tongue or strap cut or stamped out of the body thereof for clamping and binding the free end of the tie against the body of the plate, as above set forth.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isp 1. The combination, witha wire tie having a loop at one end, of means for connecting the ends of the tie, consisting of a metal clamping-plate having a strap fast at both ends, cut or stamped out of the body thereof, and combined with the looped and free end of the tie, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with the wire tie I having a loop 2 at one end, and the other end 4 free, of a metal clamping device for connectin g the ends of the tie, consisting of a plate 3, having a slot 3" therein, and a tongue or strap 3', with a hole 3" therein, for the purpose stated, substantially as set forth.

JACOB HENTZ. lVitnesses:

J OHN C. DEWEY, EDWARD F. SEYMOUR. 

